Yed wrote:
Isn't Cooke a tall half, granted he's not a great (could have been if he'd applied himself better).
There are tall halves yes, but who has ever heard of a tall scrum half that was any good?
Perhaps I'm being too old school and expecting there to be a noticable difference between the two. But the way I've always seen it is you have one half back that can organise the line, can feed the ball on to runners effectively and who has both a short and long kicking game. Normally called the scrum half. You have another who operates wider out but who can run. Perfect example being Leon at stand off and Sean Long at scrum half.
By the Saints official website's own admission, Gaskell is a stand off whose main strength is his ability to take on defenders.